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About The evening news. (Roseburg, Douglas County, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1912)
v . DOUGLAS COUNTY. News Correspondent Tells Of Valuable. KeNourrefj Found In This LatMili'ty. ' (Contributed.) Douglas county, situated in the part of the state familiarly termed Southern Oregon, has an area of 4, '800 equare miles. In this vast ter ritory there is at present a rural pop . illation of only about 8,600, whore 300,000 people could easily and prof itably make their homes. . The famous Umpqua Valley lies en ' tirely within Douglas county, and is made up of a succession of rolling hills, and innumerable beautiful val leys along the streams. In these val leys the soil is a sandy loam of the richest quality, being practically in exhaustible, ihe slopes and bench lands are also very productive, and the rolling hills furnish an abundance f; of grass for sheep and other live stocn. : ; ' ' Resources. 1 The resources of Douglas county aro second to none in the state. The v timber alone is a veritable mine .of wealth, there being forty-five billion feet of standing merchantable timber of the finest quality. Live stock, wool, mohair and fruit are all profitable industries, and large quantities are shipped out every year. The home demand at present is greater than the supply of dairy and poultry products. General failure of crops has never been known in Douglas county. All kinds of grain and feed, such as wheat, oats, corn, barley, rye, alfal fa, timothy, kale, vetch, clover and all root crops, are profitably grown. Placer mining has been successful ly carried on in this country ever since its earliest settlement, and the output still continues. Gold, silver, sopped., cinnabar, lead, nickel, coal, iron, limestone, marble Portland ce ment and building stone are found in large quantities andthe industry of mining is constantly on the increase. Itosebur. The county scat of Douglas county Is Roseburg. It has today 5,500 peo ple within Its limits, and rapidly growing. It Is very centrally locat ed, being on the main line of the Southern Pacific railroad, with Por land, at one extreme, and San Fran cisco, at the other, one distant 199 miles and the other 547 miles. Roseburg has just finished paving seven miles of streets, and over fif teen miles of cement sidewalks. Its streets are lighted with an electric decorative post lighting system. It Is the best lighted and best paved city of its size on the Pacific coast. It has two wide-awake dally news papers The Evening News and the Roseburg Review, and each of these papers publish a semi-weekly and -daily paper with a wide circulation. With the awakening of the East to the advantages and resources of the state of Oregon, the almost limit less resources of Douglas county will e among the first to be drawn upon, and the inhabitants among the first to feel the advantages therefrom. IMPROVFTJ ur u t 7 OLD-STYLE We can but poorly flat lens lUuctrnto fho nA.'VL vantages of Toric Lenses but will be pleased to explain them more full7 if you will call Our Examining Room is complete in every detail. A s MfJFV OI,'l'(5IE1',ilsT Roseburg, as the county seat, has a future of the briglUert promise. AM . ready it has the equipment of a city. Fine high school, public schools, ten churches, good fraternal organiza tions, four of which have their own substantial brick buildings; two nat ional banks and two rtate banks, one hospital, two good packing houses, three planing milts, the United Slates land office for Southwestern Oregoni the United States forestry of"ce for the Umpqua National reserve, the United States weather bureau, and the Oregon Soldiers' Home with nearly two hundred Inmates, are all located here. Roseburg has a free city mail de livery, also several rural free deliv ery routes. Dally stages run to dif ferent points in this county, also to points in Coos and Curry counties, in cluding Mai'bhtleld on Coos Bay. Tho Umpqua Valley is the land of orchards. While the fruit growing Is yet in Its infancy, over 7,600,000 pounds of prunes are shipped out yearly, and are known In the mar kets of the world tor their quality. A single Baldwin apple tree has pro duced twenty boxes of apples In one season. With Coos Bay as a harbor, and with the east and west railroad com pleted, and our Immense natural wealth, our fruits and all agricul tural products, Roseburg will be the gateway of Southern Oregon, and iu direct line with Eastern Oregon, whose products will find an outlet to tidewater via the Umpqua Valley, Roseburg and' Coos Bay a three hundred mile . shorter haul than is now followed. - . FOR SALU Cow, fresh about Aug ust 5. A. A. Gulwits, Edenbower. Phone 9F15. 307-tf Dr. Lowe's glasses are death to headaches. Ask your neighbors. liKHKIKS FOK SALE. Black, logan and mam black berries, $1.75. Redi logan berries, Lucretla and Gardina dewberries $1.60 per 24-box crnte, ,P. O. B. cars at Dlllard. L. S. Conn. Dlllard, Ore. tf Our Stock of Summer Dress Ma terials is Now Most Complete and we would advise that you come and make your selections early, as it will not be long until these lines are pretty well broken MEN AND BOYS We Have an Exceptionally Fine Line, of Clothing and Furnisnings and at Prices that are Absolutely Right We are special agents for Ladies' Home Journal Patterns, Warner's Rust-Proof Corsets and the Famous Gordon Hats. I. ABRAHAM "The House of Quality" Roseburg, ----- Oregon BEAUTIFUL AND DESIRABLE LOTS IN Maynards Harvard Avenue Addition ... m. t.. m n , , , Level, Rich River Bottom Soil Natural Park, River Drive, Close In. All City Privileges. City Water, Lights, Graded Streets. Nothing to equal these properties in the entire city Lots are Large, Prices are Low. Every Lot Fenced. For Choice of Lots, Terms and all information, Phone 212-L or apply to owner on premises, Harvard Avenue, West Rose burg, and save commission. : Buy now as prices will advance. Get yours at once and earn the in crease yourself. Intending purchas ers Please Phone 212-L and Auto will take you over to property. C D. MAYNARD, Prop. 1 Best paint on earth lead and oil at $2.00 per gallon. Let's bust the mixed paint trust. Fisher's paint store. tf lX)CArj NEWS. WAXTUI) TIMIilCH. I deslro to purchase large tracts at present marketable price in acre age oysregatlng one hundred thous aui acres or more, tf J. M. 13NGI.K. DAILY WHATIIHIi KEI'OKT. U. S. Weather Bureau, local office, Roseburg, Ore., 24 hours ending 5 a. in., July 17, 1912. Precipitation In Inches and hun dredths: Highest temperature yesterday 100 Lowesit temperature last night G2 Precipitation, last 24 hours 0 Total preclp. since first of month 10 Norma) precip. for this month .32 Total preclp. from Sep. 1, 1911, to date '. 35.4 4 Average preclp. from Septem ber 1, 1877 34.01 Total excess from Sep. 1, 1911 1.40 Average precipltntlon for 34 wet seasons, (Sep. to May Inclusive) 32.30 WILLIAM BELL, Observer The largest, most beautiful , and stylish wall paper stock over seon In Roseburg at D. P. FIsher'B pnlnt and paper Btore. 121 West Oak Btreot. The cat came hack but the spotB never do In the clothes cleaned by Sloper & Son. Ladles' and gents' work. Gloves, felt and panama hats, Work called for and delivered. Phono 47. tf A BARGAIN. Two nice levol lotB, each 40x109 In Walto's addition, only 3 blocks from high school, 1 new house 24x32, 9 ft. posto, shingled roof; another house 12x20, 1 wood shod 7x15, city water and so worn go, flno well to Irri gate garden, Prlco $960, $600 down. I balance on monthly payments of $15 per month, first year, then $10 until paid, Interest at 0 per cent. Page In vestment Company 709 N. Jackson, or Phone 242. tf You Dont Have to Go to Sea to See 5 PAT For Cement Culverts, Cement Sewer Pipe, sizes 8 to 36 inches. Cement building foundation and chimney blocKs. Cement sidewalKs and Cement worh" of any Kind. , 1 liavo II vo or six houses I will sollcheap, as I want to use the money In other business. Soe my burglar proof window lock, It O. K. See Pat'B Elastic roof paint for leaky roofs. We build, move or repair your houses. Business buildings a specialty. Over forty years experience In building. F. F. PATTERSON CONTRACTOR and BUILDER Ui, I I I RELIABLE n GitSW55-""""ran or. j vj-- MR. 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